Abolitionists - North
American
Friedrich Hecker (German 48er, American Radical Republican)
Theodore Parker (1810–1860), Unitarian minister and abolitionist
whose words inspired speeches by Abraham Lincoln and later by Martin Luther King, Jr. ("The arc of the moral universe is long...")
Black Abolitionists -
North American
Richard Allen (1760-1831) Former slave, writer, educator, founder of A.M.E. Church)
James Presley Ball (1824-1904) Photographer, businessman
Henry Bibb (1815-1845) (American/Canadian) Publisher Voice of the Fugitive newspaper
Henry Bibb (1815-1845) (American/Canadian) Publisher Voice of the Fugitive newspaper
William Wells Brown (1814-1884) ex-slave lecturer, novelist, playwright, historian
Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823-1893) publisher Provincial Freeman newspaper (Canadian)
Peter H. Clark (1829-1925) Ohio educator
Samuel Cornish (1795-1858) Minister, publisher, journalist
Ellen and William Craft (famous runaway slave couple, 1848) Lectured, Went to England
Thomas Dalton (1794-1833) With wife Lucy, activists in Massacusetts education and abolition societies
Martin Delany (1812-1885) Writer and physician (attended Harvard Medical school)
James Forten (1766-1842) Wealthy Philadelphia businessman, opposed Black colonization, president of American Anti-Slavery Society
Margaretta Forten (1806-1875), daughter of James, co-founder of Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society
Amos Noë Freeman (1809-1893) Presbyterian minister and educator.
Harriet Forten Purvis (1810-1875) formed first bi-racial anti-slavery group, Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society, URR
Robert Purvis (1810-1898)
Charlotte Forten (1837-1914) activist, writer - married Francis James Grimske, nephew of Grimske sisters
Charlotte Forten (1837-1914) activist, writer - married Francis James Grimske, nephew of Grimske sisters
Amos Noë Freeman (1809-1893) Presbyterian minister and educator.
Henry Highland Garnet (1815-1882) Radical orator, minister, and orator
Frances Harper (1825-1911) Poet, author, suffragist, member of Christian Union Temperance Union
Lewis Hayden (1811-1899 (ex-slave lecturer, politician, businessman, URR)
Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897) Escaped slave, abolitionist speaker. Wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897) Escaped slave, abolitionist speaker. Wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
Charles Henry Langston (1817-1892) Oberlin graduate, jailed in Oberlin rescue
John Mercer Langston (1829-1897) Brother of Charles; educator, activist, diplomat, and politician
Toussaint L'Ouverture (1743-1803) Former
slave, a commander of the Haitian Revolution)
Jermain Wesley Loguen (1813-1872) Bishop in AME, author of a slave narrative
Henry Moxley (1809-1878) Deacon in the AME Zion church)
John Parker (1827-1900) Former slave,
inventor, industrialist, URR)
Susan Paul (1809-1841) Teacher and author
James W.C. Pennington (107-1870) author, activist; first Black student admitted to Yale
Mary Ellen Pleasant (1817-1904) "Miss Pleasant," wealthy entrepreneur
Mary Ellen Pleasant (1817-1904) "Miss Pleasant," wealthy entrepreneur
Gabriel Prosser Gabriel's Rebellion, Virginia, 1800
Charles Lenox Remond (1810-1873) Orator, worked with Garrison
David Ruggles (1810-1849) URR
John Brown Russwurm (1799-1851) founder with Samuel Cornish of the abolitionist newspaper, Freedom's Journal, the first paper owned and operated by African Americans.
Dred Scott (1799-1851) Dred Scott decision, 1858)
Benjamin "Pap" Singleton (1809-1892) founded Black communities in Kansas
James McCune Smith (1813-1865)
Lucy Stanton (1831-1910) abolitionist, feminist
Austin Steward (1793-1869)
Maria W. Stewart (1803-1880) abolitionist and feminist
William Still (1821-1902)
Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1863)
Harriet Tubman (1822-1913)
Nat Turner (1800-1831)
Denmark Vesey (1767-1822)
David Walker (1796-1830)
Samuel Ringgold Ward (1817-1866) (born into
slavery, American)
William Whipper (1804-1876)
Theodore S. Wright (1797-1847)
American Abolitionist Groups
African Methodist Episcopal
Church (AME) (founded 1794, Philadelphia, PA)
Liberty Party (United
States, 1840)
Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
Republican Party (United
States)
Foreign Abolitionists and Groups
William Allen (British Quaker)
Thomas Burchell (British Jamaican)
Thomas Fowell
Buxton (British)
Josiah Conder (British)
Samuel Johnson (British)
William Knibb (British)
Charles Dickens (British)
Henri Grégoire (French)
Elizabeth Heyrick (British)
James Edward
Oglethorpe (English, founder of the Province of
Georgia)
Samuel Oughton (British advocate of black labor rights in Jamaica)
Samuel Oughton (British advocate of black labor rights in Jamaica)
James Ramsay (British)
Maximilien
Robespierre (French)
Victor Schœlcher (French)
James Sherman (British)
Henry Thornton (British) John Harfield
Tredgold (British) Josiah Wedgwood (British) produced "Am I Not
A Man And A Brother?"
anti-slavery medallion
Foreign Groups:
Anti-Slavery
Society (British)
Royal Navy (British)
Society of the
Friends of the Blacks
(Société des Amis des Noirs) (French)
The Emancipation
Network (International)
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